Adages IIvii1 to IIIiii100 : : IIvii1 to IIIiii100 / / Desiderius Erasmus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Erasmus, Desiderius,
• TeilnehmendeR: Mynors, R.A.B.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of Erasmus ; 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (458 p.)

This is one of seven volumes that will contain the more than 4000 adages that Erasmus gathered and commented on, sometimes in a few lines and sometimes in full-scale essays. The notes identify the classical sources and indicate how Erasmus' reading and thinking developed over the quarter-century spanned by the eight revisions of the original work. Many of the proverbs cited by Erasmus are still in our common stock of speech.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Adages II vii 1 to III iii 100 -- Adages: 1 Pomarius Hercules / Hercules eating apples – 100 Suem irritat / He provokes the boar -- Adages: 1 Servatori tertius / A third to the Deliverer – 100 Quam curat testudo muscam / More than a tortoise minds a fly -- Adages: 1 Stultior Morycho / As big a fool as Morychus – 100 Navis aut galerus / Ship or cap -- Adages: 1 Mazam pinsuit a me pistam / He baked the sponge cake I kneaded – 100 Nudior paxillo / As naked as a peg -- Adages: 1 Herculei labores / The labours of Hercules – 100 Animo aegrotanti medicus est oratio / To a sick spirit speech is a physician -- Adages: 1 Si quid mali, in Pyrrham / If there's anything bad, on Pyrrha's head – 100 Vitiat lapidem longum tempus / Length of time wears the marble -- Adages: 1 Sileni Alcibiadis / The Sileni of Alcibiades – 100 Intersecta musica / The music is cut off -- Notes -- Works Frequently Cited -- Table of Adages